Of interest to Talk-ZA. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> Date: 2009/9/12 Subject: [OSM-talk] Google Data Liberation Front - beyond amazing To: t...@openstreetmap.org
Hi all, On Friday afternoon I made a request via Google's Data Liberation Front moderator page that they should sort out the legalities for their aerial imagery. This could let people use tracings from Google imagery elsewhere, just as Yahoo allows, rather than being locked down to Google Maps and its API. We've already established there's no legal barrier to them doing so. Thanks to you all, the support has been absolutely amazing. In a day and a half, we have 414 votes for the request - I've had to refresh three times while writing this e-mail, it just keeps going up. Their next most popular suggestion has 136 votes, just a third of our tally. We're all over Twitter and elsewhere. (Lest there be any doubt, this isn't a crappy "I want I want I want" petition. This is how Google actively ask you to make your requests.) What now? Please *keep publicising it*. Please translate and post to your local mailing list. We're not on talk-de yet - that must be worth a good few votes! Blog, tweet, tell your friends. If we're way out in front, Google will listen to us. If we're way out in front, we can publicise it elsewhere, from the Guardian to Slashdot. We need to show that it's not just a handful of legal bores who think this matters - it's really important to a lot of people. The address is: http://url.ie/2ero Sign in and show your support. I'm bowled over by the response so far - let's make it even better. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
